100 Bits o’ Trivia
The BBC has a list of “100 things we didn’t know this time last year” that’s pretty interesting. Among my favorites:
1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
As I said, it is the British Broadcasting Corporation. Britain is the only country I know that could seriously consider banning potato peelers as weapons. Anyways, back to the light stuff:
5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls.
8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.
19. The collective noun for rhinos is “crash”.
22. George W Bush got the highest number of votes for president of any candidate in US history, in November 2004.23. John Kerry got the second highest number.
35. George Bush and John Kerry shared the same debating coach while at Yale University. His name was Rollin Osterweis.38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.
51. The day after the atomic bomb exploded on Hiroshima, the banks re-opened. They had one customer, John Reader’s book Cities recorded.
72. Desert locusts can travel 120 miles in 24 hours.100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.